Don't use backspace to edit posts!

[Jezebel]

It was pointed out to me that there have been a lot of duplicate posts lately. I took a look at these posts and noticed they weren't real duplicates. They were posts with slight edits from the first post. This is my theory on why this is happening:
Member writes a post and submits it
Member reads the post after submission, notices a word they want to change (or some other slight change)
Instead of clicking the modify button, member hits backspace and changes what they originally wrote
Member clicks submit, but since this would act as another submission rather than an edit, it gets reposted
Since the changes are slight, they appear to be duplicatesThat's just my guess so if there is another reason this is happening, please enlighten me.

Anyway, there are several members doing this. Use the modify button! Using backspace and resubmitting creates a new post instead of changing the original one.

Thanks for your future cooperation! :lovestruck:

[elsdfr]

At one stage the Modify screen loaded but wouldn't save the changes. I gave it plenty of time and then went to the advanced edit where something else happened... plus it was a Friday night so I'd probably been drinking and then I thought going backwards (as you might) was the best idea (in a new browser tab no less) and then resubmitting it from there.. again.

But last time I checked the basic edit function loaded and saved my changes fairly quickly so maybe the problem has been fixed?

Glad you posted because I thought it was just me being lame.

Edit: yeap, Modify works fine for me now.

[Jezebel]

Thanks for the feedback, elsdfr. And I'd like to encourage all members to report problems with the forum. If I'm made aware that there have been issues, I will try to fix them. If nobody tells me, I might never be aware of them unless I run into them myself.

So has anyone else experienced problems using edit at any time (even if it is working fine now)?

Also, members can delete their own posts if they realize they double posted. The option to do this is on the same screen you edit your posts from. You don't have to wait for a moderator. No... nobody missed that option- it was my fault. I didn't realize it wasn't already enabled from the admin side, but it should work now.